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January 29, 2017
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The Paracast Explores the Frontiers of Reality with Joshua P. Warren
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free eBook offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren, who is producing a live, interactive paranormal investigator certification course covering spirits, UFOs, cryptids, ESP, magick and more, which he’s offering online on a one-time basis. The discussion focuses heavily on such topics as the nature of reality, whether we could even recognize the presence of aliens and their spacecraft, and ancient astronauts, the possibility that extraterrestrials visited Earth and interacted with humans more than two thousand years ago. Warren will also describe the possible benefits of the so-called “wishing machine,” a radionics device, as Gene volunteers to test one and report the results to listeners.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Joshua P. Warren’s Site: Home
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on January 29: We talk about Joshua P. Warren’s appearance on The Paracast. What of the brief discussion about the Bermuda Triangle that Joshua diverted to a radionics device and how he found his second home in Puerto Rico? Gene confirms that he was promised a radionics box from Joshua’s business partner. And what about other gadgets that are designed to harness mysterious types of cosmic energy, such as the Orgone box? The fact that the radionics device uses crystals inspires Gene to discuss the days when he assembled cheap radio cuts that used crystals, which didn’t work so well. There’s also a UFO detector update, and Gene and Chris talk about bringing on a psychic as a guest on The Paracast and having listeners submit to readings.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
So What Are Those Flying Things Anyway?
By Gene Steinberg
As an inveterate sci-fi fan, I’ve always enjoyed allowing my imagination to go wild envisioning the possibilities of our future, or that the universe was populated with all sorts of alien races that we might some day contact. Of course, it was more pleasant to think of them as human or human-like. Certainly the creators of space opera TV shows and movies tended not to steer too far beyond humanoid shapes when depicting such beings.
When it comes to super heroes from other space, such as Superman and Supergirl, they may be amazingly powerful aliens, but they appear to be totally human, and thus they blend in. Yet another comic book-based creature from space, the Martian Manhunter, is a green-skinned alien, but he can also shape shift, so he can easily take on the form of a human or, I suppose, any living creature. That helps save on special effects money when he’s depicted on TV as an African American most of the time.
In Star Trek and Star Wars, even the more bizarre aliens are mostly humanoid, and their behavior is equally human-like. Sometimes they speak in an alien tongue, and some devout Trekkers have opted to learn Klingon. Most of the time, however, they converse with us in English, and there’s always a handy “universal translator” to make the process seamless. You’d think, however, that their lip movements would sync with the alien tongue, as in a dubbed movie, and not with English.
The creatures mostly seen in and around UFOs are very much in the sci-fi mold, which may mean that the creators of all that lore were right on the money, or that we’re not seeing such creatures in their true form. Some of the beings in sci-fi stories can be decidedly grotesque, and I’ll cite the “Alien” series as a prime example of a particularly frightening creature, especially when it pops out of someone’s stomach in a very famous and terrifying scene.
Now the overriding assumption has long been that the UFOs we see, and the creatures that appear in connection with them, appear to us in their true form. What you see is what you see. That’s certainly the convenient explanation, because it doesn’t require much thought about other possibilities that may be less pleasant or understandable.
Sure, a gray alien, when it’s not tiny, cute and fuzzy in the fashion of the titular star of “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” could be thought of somewhat frightening. I suppose that depends on their behavior towards us. If they are engaged in performing painful physical examinations on someone, their strange appearance only seems stranger.
But one of the points I’ve been making recently — and I think it requires careful thought — is that there is no reason to think that ET in any way resembles humans. It may not even be a biped, or have a form that we’d recognize in any way as representative of an intelligent or even living creature.
One fairly well-known fictional example is a Horta, a highly intelligent creature that appears to be fashioned of molten rock. It was featured in an early episode of “Star Trek,” entitled “The Devil in the Dark.”
Predictably, the creature was regarded as hostile, dangerous, until Spock mind-melded with an injured Horta and discovered that they were peaceful creatures that were only trying to defend themselves against uncaring miners.
The key here is that this was a life form that we would never ordinarily recognize as alive let alone highly intelligent. But what if the life form wasn’t even visible to the human eye? What then? What if it was made up of some sort of pure energy that could take on any form it wanted to? Right, this is something also dealt with even in the early days of “Star Trek,” which tried to convey the idea that life in the universe took on many forms, and not all of those forms would be recognizable.
It’s a lesson that doesn’t appear to apply to UFOs. But even if the alien we see represent their true form, it’s also possible they are robotic or synthetic beings that were fashioned to appear more acceptable to humanoid races. So we never observe the intelligent race that created those robots. Or maybe the robots are used as vessels that contain ET’s intelligence.
As to the UFO itself, once again perhaps it is just a projection, a hologram. ET’s true traveling mechanism may be nothing that we’d even recognize as a means to transport something from one place to another. No, I am not suggesting they necessarily use a “Stargate” device of some sort, a device depicted in a popular movie and several TV series, which can transport something from one end of the universe to another. You had to set up the device at both ends of the journey; they’d serve as transmitter or receiver. Once activated and programmed for a specific destination, upon entering the gate, you’d be thrust through a wormhole to your selected destination.
If that’s how ET gets here, perhaps UFOs are meant for local transport or are meant to deflect attention from their true means of transportation, whatever that is.
But what if ET is a race that is hundreds of thousands or millions of years ahead of us? What if their technology truly appears as magic to us? Consider the “Q Continuum,” introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation. So one of the popular characters of that series, Q, existed outside of our reality, was capable of appearing in any form he (or it) wanted, and could also manipulate our reality to its own needs.
Is any such thing even possible in our real world? If we are dealing with an extraterrestrial intelligence so far beyond us in its achievements that we couldn’t even recognize its existence, is there even any point in investigating UFOs?
Or maybe ET is engaged in revealing themselves gradually, over the years, the decades, the centuries, so we see them in a more and more advanced form until we are prepared to accept them as they truly are.
Even if you could physically place your hands upon a landed UFO, does that mean you are seeing and touching a real spaceship? Certainly a highly advanced species would be perfectly capable of manipulating all of our senses as it chooses.
But it also means that the UFO mystery is far more complicated than we expect, or can even comprehend.
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January 29, 2017
www.theparacast.com
The Paracast Explores the Frontiers of Reality with Joshua P. Warren
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free eBook offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris present paranormal investigator Joshua P. Warren, who is producing a live, interactive paranormal investigator certification course covering spirits, UFOs, cryptids, ESP, magick and more, which he’s offering online on a one-time basis. The discussion focuses heavily on such topics as the nature of reality, whether we could even recognize the presence of aliens and their spacecraft, and ancient astronauts, the possibility that extraterrestrials visited Earth and interacted with humans more than two thousand years ago. Warren will also describe the possible benefits of the so-called “wishing machine,” a radionics device, as Gene volunteers to test one and report the results to listeners.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Joshua P. Warren’s Site: Home
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on January 29: We talk about Joshua P. Warren’s appearance on The Paracast. What of the brief discussion about the Bermuda Triangle that Joshua diverted to a radionics device and how he found his second home in Puerto Rico? Gene confirms that he was promised a radionics box from Joshua’s business partner. And what about other gadgets that are designed to harness mysterious types of cosmic energy, such as the Orgone box? The fact that the radionics device uses crystals inspires Gene to discuss the days when he assembled cheap radio cuts that used crystals, which didn’t work so well. There’s also a UFO detector update, and Gene and Chris talk about bringing on a psychic as a guest on The Paracast and having listeners submit to readings.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
So What Are Those Flying Things Anyway?
By Gene Steinberg
As an inveterate sci-fi fan, I’ve always enjoyed allowing my imagination to go wild envisioning the possibilities of our future, or that the universe was populated with all sorts of alien races that we might some day contact. Of course, it was more pleasant to think of them as human or human-like. Certainly the creators of space opera TV shows and movies tended not to steer too far beyond humanoid shapes when depicting such beings.
When it comes to super heroes from other space, such as Superman and Supergirl, they may be amazingly powerful aliens, but they appear to be totally human, and thus they blend in. Yet another comic book-based creature from space, the Martian Manhunter, is a green-skinned alien, but he can also shape shift, so he can easily take on the form of a human or, I suppose, any living creature. That helps save on special effects money when he’s depicted on TV as an African American most of the time.
In Star Trek and Star Wars, even the more bizarre aliens are mostly humanoid, and their behavior is equally human-like. Sometimes they speak in an alien tongue, and some devout Trekkers have opted to learn Klingon. Most of the time, however, they converse with us in English, and there’s always a handy “universal translator” to make the process seamless. You’d think, however, that their lip movements would sync with the alien tongue, as in a dubbed movie, and not with English.
The creatures mostly seen in and around UFOs are very much in the sci-fi mold, which may mean that the creators of all that lore were right on the money, or that we’re not seeing such creatures in their true form. Some of the beings in sci-fi stories can be decidedly grotesque, and I’ll cite the “Alien” series as a prime example of a particularly frightening creature, especially when it pops out of someone’s stomach in a very famous and terrifying scene.
Now the overriding assumption has long been that the UFOs we see, and the creatures that appear in connection with them, appear to us in their true form. What you see is what you see. That’s certainly the convenient explanation, because it doesn’t require much thought about other possibilities that may be less pleasant or understandable.
Sure, a gray alien, when it’s not tiny, cute and fuzzy in the fashion of the titular star of “E.T. the Extraterrestrial,” could be thought of somewhat frightening. I suppose that depends on their behavior towards us. If they are engaged in performing painful physical examinations on someone, their strange appearance only seems stranger.
But one of the points I’ve been making recently — and I think it requires careful thought — is that there is no reason to think that ET in any way resembles humans. It may not even be a biped, or have a form that we’d recognize in any way as representative of an intelligent or even living creature.
One fairly well-known fictional example is a Horta, a highly intelligent creature that appears to be fashioned of molten rock. It was featured in an early episode of “Star Trek,” entitled “The Devil in the Dark.”
Predictably, the creature was regarded as hostile, dangerous, until Spock mind-melded with an injured Horta and discovered that they were peaceful creatures that were only trying to defend themselves against uncaring miners.
The key here is that this was a life form that we would never ordinarily recognize as alive let alone highly intelligent. But what if the life form wasn’t even visible to the human eye? What then? What if it was made up of some sort of pure energy that could take on any form it wanted to? Right, this is something also dealt with even in the early days of “Star Trek,” which tried to convey the idea that life in the universe took on many forms, and not all of those forms would be recognizable.
It’s a lesson that doesn’t appear to apply to UFOs. But even if the alien we see represent their true form, it’s also possible they are robotic or synthetic beings that were fashioned to appear more acceptable to humanoid races. So we never observe the intelligent race that created those robots. Or maybe the robots are used as vessels that contain ET’s intelligence.
As to the UFO itself, once again perhaps it is just a projection, a hologram. ET’s true traveling mechanism may be nothing that we’d even recognize as a means to transport something from one place to another. No, I am not suggesting they necessarily use a “Stargate” device of some sort, a device depicted in a popular movie and several TV series, which can transport something from one end of the universe to another. You had to set up the device at both ends of the journey; they’d serve as transmitter or receiver. Once activated and programmed for a specific destination, upon entering the gate, you’d be thrust through a wormhole to your selected destination.
If that’s how ET gets here, perhaps UFOs are meant for local transport or are meant to deflect attention from their true means of transportation, whatever that is.
But what if ET is a race that is hundreds of thousands or millions of years ahead of us? What if their technology truly appears as magic to us? Consider the “Q Continuum,” introduced in Star Trek: The Next Generation. So one of the popular characters of that series, Q, existed outside of our reality, was capable of appearing in any form he (or it) wanted, and could also manipulate our reality to its own needs.
Is any such thing even possible in our real world? If we are dealing with an extraterrestrial intelligence so far beyond us in its achievements that we couldn’t even recognize its existence, is there even any point in investigating UFOs?
Or maybe ET is engaged in revealing themselves gradually, over the years, the decades, the centuries, so we see them in a more and more advanced form until we are prepared to accept them as they truly are.
Even if you could physically place your hands upon a landed UFO, does that mean you are seeing and touching a real spaceship? Certainly a highly advanced species would be perfectly capable of manipulating all of our senses as it chooses.
But it also means that the UFO mystery is far more complicated than we expect, or can even comprehend.
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